Professor of Art History
161A College of the Holy Cross
Worcester MA 01610-2395

INTERESTS
Both in teaching and scholarship, I am interested in religious
art of all kinds, patterns of collecting, and intersections of
the visual image and written culture. For example Sarah Stanbury,
Department of English, and I photographed East Anglian churches
and guild halls to explore the physical context of medieval literary
figures such as Julian of Norwich (Revelations) William Langland
(Piers Plowman) Margery Kempe (The Book of Margery Kempe) and
John Lydgate (poetry). See Mapping
Margery Kempe. I have team taught with many professors, including
Thomas Lawler, John Wilson, and Sarah Stanbury (English) and am now teaching in the "Divine" cluster of the College's Monserrat program for entering students.

I have
a growing collection of 19th-century
religious art, predominantly prints, many in their
original frames. They include Lutheran baptismal certificates
(in German), Catholic marriage and communion certificates (in
French, German, and English), devotional imagery, including
a Currier and Ives Sacred Heart of Mary, an Italian (Naples)
image of St. Rocco, patron of victims of the plague, an Hispanic
image of Christ in Gethsemane, and Currier and Ives prints,
such as The Mother's Dream, Looking unto Jesus,
and Bed Time (a mother teaching her young children to
say their prayers). Here is St. Patrick.

I am bilingual
in English and French and have considerable German skills since
a great deal of my recent research has been on German, Swiss, and
Austrian stained glass of both the Middle Ages and the 19th century.

Religion Matters: Art, Piety, Destruction and the Politics of Display
Conference at the College of the Holy
Cross, Worcester MA, February 2006. In conjuntion with the exhibit Catholic Collecting, Catholic Reflection 1538-1850: Objects as a measure of reflection on a Catholic past and the construction of recusant identity in England and America

Sacred Spaces:
Legacy And Responsibility: Conference at the College of the Holy
Cross, Worcester MA, April 5-7, 2002. Supported by the Lilly Fellows
Program in the Humanities and Arts. Historical and practical presentation
of art, architecture , and music; displays of building restorations,
historic liturgical furnishings and vestments; concerts of sacred
music; tours of places of worship

International
Seminar of 19th and Early 20th-Century Stained Glass
Philadelphia April 27-May 1 (The Census of Stained Glass Windows
in America and Society of Architectural Historians, 1994). Twenty
international scholars

SELF
PUBLICATION and WEBSITES
Website, 1999, co-authored with Sarah Stanbury, Department of English,
College of the Holy Cross, funded by the National Endowment for
the Humanities: Mapping
Margery Kempe: A Guide to Late Medieval Material and Spiritual
Life. There are now over 400 hundred of images of late medieval
English architecture and stained glass set within contextual explanation
of devotional imagery and the function of the parish church, medieval
town, and cathedral.

Website,
1997, Copley
Square Photo Project One hundred images with explanation of
the Boston Public Library, Trinity Church, Old South Church, Hancock
Tower and the original Museum of Fine Arts, profiling the architecture,
mural decoration, sculpture, and stained glass one of the most significant
public squares in the United States.

Proceedings
of the International Seminar of 19th and Early 20th-Century Stained
Glass
Philadelphia April 27-May (240 pages) (The Census of Stained
Glass Windows in America and Society of Architectural Historians,
1994)